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TWIST LACE.

No. 563,708. Patented July 7, 1896.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ROBERT FREDERICK CAREY, OF NOTTINGHAM, ENGLAND, ASSIGNOR TO CAREY d:SONS, LIMITED, OF SAME PLACE.

TWIST-LACE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 563,708, dated July .7,1896.

Application filed December 9, 1895. Serial No. 571,519. (No specimens.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ROBERT FREDERICK )AREY, managing director of thefirm of Carey d5 Sons, Limited, lace manufacturers, a subject of theQueen of Great Britain, and a resident of Stoney Street, Nottingham,England, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in thelllanufacture of Twist- Lace, of which the following is a specification.

lleretoforc what is termed bar-ground or V-net has always had theobjection that it was impossible to insert bright effects or fancygrounds without using combination appliances.

By this invention the objection is overcome, the desired effects beingproduced on a machine having one set of carriages, one warpbar, and onespool-bar. This is done by having every other spool-thread a fine threadand by causing the other thicker spool-threads always to twist in thepillars while the net is being made, the pillars being connected by thefine threads which traverse to and fro on each side of their pillarsinstead of on one side only, as is usual.

The difference in thickness of the pillars is scarcely perceptible, butit can be avoided by having every other warp thicker than the remainder,the thick warps twisting with the thin spool-threads and the thin warpswith the thick spool -threads. Clothing can be formed by the thick andthe thin spool-threads together. It will be understood that in draftingI can put the ground just where I please, and that where the ground isomitted any kind of open-work or fancy effects can be in serted atpleasure. Moreover, by varying the closeness of the holes any kind ofclothing can be produced by the thin cotton.

The drawing is a diagram showing to a greatly-magnified scale a piece oflace made according to this-invention.

a a are the warp-threads; b b, the bobbinthreads; 0 c, the thickspool-threads, and (Z cl the thin spool-threads The portion of thefabric between A and B is bar-ground or V-net, the portion between B andC is clothing produced by the thin spool-threads, the portion between Cand D clothing produced by the thick spool-threads,

and the portion between D and E clothing produced by both spool-threads.

As will be seen, the ground shown between A and B is produced by thethin spool-threads being first shogged one gait to the left and backagain, and then one gait to the right and back again, and so on, thethick spoolthreads remaining all the time in their pillars. Othermovements may, however, be adopted. Thus a closer mesh may be producedby shoggin g the thin spool-threads one gait, then another gait in thesame direction, and then back two gaits.

The clothing between B and O and between O and D is produced by shoggingthe thin and thick spool-threads, respectively,first one gait to theleft, then backward and forward two gaits to the right and left, and soon, the thick and thin spool-threads, respectively, remaining in theirpillars.

The clothing between D and E is produced by shoggin g both threadsbackward and forward through three gaits, first shogging them one gaitto the left.

The number of gaits through which the threads are shogged when makingclothwork may, however, be varied in all three cases.

\Vhat I claim is- 1. A twist-lace fabric, in which each pillar consistsof one warp-thread, one spool-thread and one bobbin-thread, every otherspoolthread being thinner than the remaining spool-threads.

2. A twist-lace net in which every other spool-thread is thinner thanthe remaining spool-threads, the pillars being connected by the thinthreads which pass from their pillars to the adjacent pillars on eachside while the thick threads remain in the pillars.

3. A twist-lace net in which every other spool-thread is thinner thanthe remaining spool-threads, the pillars being connected by the thinthreads while the thick threads remain in the pillars and ornamentedbypatches of clothwork produced by the thin spoolthreads by the thickspool-threads and by both spool-threads.

ROBERT FREDERICK CAREY.

itnesses W. F. GRUND'Y, WM. WHITTLEY.

